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- Title
The marriage unemployment gap.
- Authors
Choi, Sekyu; Valladares-Esteban, Arnau
- Abstract
In this paper we document that married individuals face a lower unemployment rate than their single counterparts. We refer to this phenomenon as the marriage unemployment gap. Despite dramatic demographic changes in the labor market over the last decades, this gap has been remarkably stable both for men and women. Using a flow-decomposition exercise, we assess which transition probabilities (across labor force states) are behind this phenomenon: For men, the main driver is the higher job losing probabilities faced by single workers. For females, the participation margin also plays a crucial role.
- Subjects
EMPLOYMENT of married people; SINGLE people; UNEMPLOYMENT; LABOR market; PROBABILITY theory; EMPLOYMENT
- Publication
B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2018, Vol 18, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2194-6116
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/bejm-2016-0060